Re: Questions about digests and ICP

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Reuben Farrelly wrote:

> How big are the digests on a typical cache of say, 15GB? Are we talking
> 100k, 1000k, 10000k? Would it be best if I enabled digests as well?

FAQ:

  "16.4 How is the size of the Cache Digest in Squid determined?"
  http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-16.html#ss16.4

I have two proxies with around 16Gb of cache data each; both have cache
digests of around 886Kb.

As to whether or not to enable digests - it shouldn't hurt to compile Squid
with cache digests enabled, then selectively enable/disable them for each
peer:

- no-query (don't use ICP, use CDs instead)
- no-digest (don't use CDs, use ICP instead)
- no-digest no-query (don't use either CDs or ICP - no point!)

Cheers..

dave
Received on Mon Jul 12 1999 - 13:32:53 MDT